up and running with autodesk advance steel 2019

There are some projects I'd simply be afraid of accepting because I'd have to manage much of this information manually, or invent my own systems to handle it. Not to mention having to manually track Mark numbers, and no native DTSV exporting.

Especially on large projects, such as apartment buildings. Is anyone familiar with Advance Steel? Love it or hate it? Are the automated connections and drawings worth learning an entirely new work flow, or are you doomed to basically revise them all so much that you ought to make them from scratch anyway? Drawing detailing is by FAR the longest, most tedious part of steel detailing in SolidWorks. I have zero experience in the AutoCAD interface, and the last two times I've downloaded a trial, I've barely made it past laying down my grid lines before reverting back to SolidWorks, simply because I'm more familiar. While SolidWorks has its merits for this, including easily modelling exactly what I need, the automated connections and drawings of a product like Advance Steel are obviously very attractive to me. I'm quite proficient in SolidWorks, but only SolidWorks, and a solid 70% - 80% of business that comes through the door are steel detailing projects.

Up and running with autodesk advance steel 2019